By Sheila Pratt
EDMONTON — Defence lawyers went to federal court in Edmonton Tuesday to try to force a review of the government’s refusal to repatriate Omar Khadr, the Canadian accused of killing an American soldier …

By Robert Verkaik
Six former detainees at Guantanamo Bay have won their legal battle to have their claims against the Government heard in public.
In a far-reaching judgment on the principle of open justice, the Court of …

By Paul Koring
Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Station, Cuba
Omar Khadr, then a gravely wounded 15-year-old, was routinely trussed up in a cage “in one of the worst places on Earth,” according to a hulking former military …

By Paul Koring

Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Station, Cuba
Preliminary talks have been held to end Omar Khadr’s war-crimes trial with a plea bargain that could lead to his release and repatriation to Canada, but agreement from …

By Paul Koring
In shackles and flanked by military guards, Omar Khadr will be taken this week from the razor-wire-ringed Guantanamo Bay prison compound where he has spent almost a third of his life to a …

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
United States Transfers Three Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Georgia
The Department of Justice today announced that three detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at …

By Scott Horton
1. “Asymmetrical Warfare”
When President Barack Obama took office last year, he promised to “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great.” Toward that …

By Sarah Boesveld
The federal government has asked the United States not to use Canadian-collected evidence in prosecutions against Omar Khadr, a gesture observers are calling “inadequate and invalid.”
In a statement released late Tuesday, Justice Minister …

By Richard Norton-Taylor
Three of Britain’s most senior judges have ordered the government to reveal evidence of MI5 complicity in the torture of British resident Binyam Mohamed – unanimously dismissing objections by David Miliband, the foreign …

By Gloria Galloway
The Conservative government will not ask for Omar Khadr to be repatriated from an American detention centre in Cuba despite a Supreme Court ruling that his rights have been violated, the Foreign Affairs …

By Andy Worthington
With a stunning lack of sensitivity, President Barack Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force chose the anniversary of the president’s failed promise to close the prison to announce its conclusions regarding the eventual fate …

By Ian Cobain
US government officials may have conspired to conceal evidence that three Guantánamo Bay inmates could have been murdered during interrogations, according to a six-month investigation by American journalists.
All three may have been suffocated …

Judge Roberts has published a detailed, 15-page decision granting in part and denying in part Zahir’s motion for permission to propound various interrogatories in this habeas proceeding.
The opinion contains extended discussion of what facts will …

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United States Transfers Six Uighur Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Palau
Six detainees who are Chinese nationals of Uighur ethnicity have been transferred from the …